The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his d ...Show more
The Descent into Hell by Alighieri Dante
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Many have made the journey. None have ever returned . . . Wandering through a dark forest, Dante finds himself at the gates to the underworld. Despite his terror, he dares to enter the Circles of Hell, where the damned lie in torment. As he descends deeper, he encounters wild-eyed sinners, sees the ...Show more
The Destruction of Troy by Virgil
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Fated to be an exile, a hero must roam the world to follow his destiny. The city of Troy has fallen. Only a few of its citizens remain. The brave hero Aeneas must save his family and escape before the invading Greeks murder them all. But he is cursed by Juno, Queen of Heaven. Chasing him across the seas ...Show more
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Behind this rather prim and proper title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a long-suffering, disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos: there's her husband Robert, who, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, does ever ...Show more
The Dubliners by James Joyce
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
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The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
THE ENDLESS STEPPE is based on the author's true-life experience. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Esther Rudomin was ten years old when, in 1941, she and her family were arrested by the Russians for being 'capitalists' and transported to Siberia. The next five years s ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven . . . Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But whe ...Show more
The Fall of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
It is fatal to show pity in a time of war. Led by the mighty Titus, the Roman army besieges Jerusalem. Arrows rain over the city day and night, and battering rams assault its defensive walls. Inside, the people curse their fate, resistant to the last but maddened by hunger. After days of rebellion, al l ...Show more
The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Lord of the Rings 1 | Reading Level: good
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic ...Show more
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ...He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them' Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting ...Show more
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, "Moll Flanders" is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in "Penguin Classics". Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society p ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more